Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-09

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especially useful to candidates preparing
for public examinations, such as the inter-
mediate examination for honors and the
B. a. degree in the University Of London.
OF Shakespeare's works, Alden's ideal
narrow page edition, we have two more
volumes, third and fourth, embracing the
+" Merchant of Venice 9 As You Like tt
" Tanning the Shrew," ." AIS Well that
Ends Well, Twelfth Night, Winters
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at So for fine CLOTH beveled board and gilt
top binding half morocco, msrbled edges,
s. 90.
OF the ''Cassell National Library series
weekly we have from C. S. Houghton,
Sacramento, Nos. II, -, 70 and "a Grips
to the Moon, Lives of Cato the Younger,
Agis, Cleomenes and The Gracchi," life
of Julius Cesar" and DIARY of Samuel
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each, or s. per year, one delivered each
week. For small sum any man may
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AZURE.
John B. Alden, New York, follows his
Guizot's France" by the first numbers of
" Irving's Life of Washington" octave,
half morocco, embellished backs, in gold,
long primer type and cream-tinted paper.
The set of four volumes, in cloth, are sold
at So half morocco, 81. The first volume
is freely illustrated, and is up to high
standards of excellence for Typography and
finish. The price is phenomenally low.
The wee ones and smallest readers of the
household will be delighted to receive the
July issue of Our Little Ones" published
by the Russell Publishing Company. Bos-
ton. 1t illustrates little pieces of AZ Piggy
at Church" "Sprinkling the Flowers
Tricky Polly" and Howard Earned the
Pony" are well adapted to fill the entire
cup of happiness Of its little perusers.
The Battles and Leaders of the Civil
War is an issue in numbers by the Gen.
fury Company, Union Square, New York.
No. 2 is at hand. The text is mainly from
the war papers published in the Century
Magazine. United, they must form vol
ume of much value, and certainly one
| illustrated in the best style of wood en-
craving and with great profusion.
From ]. b. Alden, New York. we have in
| large quarto form "Alden's Home Atlas of
| the World" The plates are in colors, and,
so far as we can discover by a single exam
| ination, are correct in detail. A valuable
statistical table of reference to places their
locality and latitude and longitude, pre-
| cedes the maps.
OF the Cassell National Library, Cassell
& Co., New York and London, we have
from c. S. Houghton, Sacramento, No. IS
of Vol. II, issue for the week ending July
I'd. 1t is Pope's Essay on Man." with
number of Pope's poems and moral essays.
From Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers,
New York, we have the love and war story
entitled, The Hornets Nest" admirably
written by the celebrated writer Edward
P. Roe. Bound in paper covers, % cents.
"Sabina Zembra - is one of VIM. Blacks
latest novels. Mr.. Black has taken no
steps backward in his literary career, and
| this new novel ranks with the better of the
many he has produced. Harper & Bro.
From A. L. Bancroft & Co., San Fran
cisco, we have Harper & Bros. New York
edition of " Locksley Hall, Sixty Years
After" etc., by the poet laureat, Lord
Tennyson.
MAGAZINES, ETC.
The North American Review" for July
has for its leading article paper By Henry
George on " The New Party y why Am
ingham; Hon. George w. Julian con-
| tributes facts and figures on Land
Stealing; Dion Boucicault treats '' The
Decline and Fall of the Press =
My Personal Finances" by President Gar
field is the third and last part of Edmund
KirKe's series of Gar6eld's autobiography
cal notes. Arthur Richmond does Hon.
James Russell Lowell the honor of ad-
dressing him a second letter. Ignatius
Donnelly concludes his paper, The Shake
speare Myth. Johnson, Grant Seward,
Sumner are portrayed by Gideon Welles,
! in posthumous letter. English Women
as a Political Force is the subject of a
paper by Lady Borthwick. John c. WEIGH
treats :" The Interstate Railway Solvent"
The Authorship Of the Glacial Theory"
| by Prof. 4. B. Evans, explains the matter
| Duffield OSBORNE discusses Irish Aid in
the Am erican Revolution"
The Century Illustrated Magazine " for
July is a superb number. The Lincoln
| History papers are continued there are
poems by Z. r. Sill; Frank r. Stockton's
serial; an article on the Muybridge photo
| graphs of animal locomotion; paper by
General Howard on the Atlanta campaign;
several short stories and critical papers an
| incident in the life of John Adams, by the
veteran historian, George Bancroft, and 2
wholly new sketch of Sister Todhunter' 8
| Heart" by H. S. Edwards which will place
the author among the first class of humor-
lists and grotesque character deliueators. 1t
| is q bit of literary art-work that will bring
Mr.. Edwards very much more prominently
to the front than more labored and exalted
| work. 1t has its faults, chief among which
is the failure to excuse in the least the vix-
enish and amazonian !conduct of Sister
| Todhunter when she was churched.n
| The American Magazine" for July
| presents over one hundred and thirty-fve
pages of choice literature and illustrations.
| Among its articles of especial interest is
one by z. L. White upon the mission work
and experience of Mr.. Duncan among the
Indians on the west coast of British
| America, and which has of late attracted
much attention of the press and our Gov
eminent. Other articles worthy of special
| sttention are 1.-THE Colored Schools of the
Southwest, Mormons as Fruit-raisers
and Florists" and Mrs. Hardy's En-
counter with Ghost" r. T. Bush & Son,
132 Pearl street, New York.
The Overland Monthly for July, 415
Montgomery street, San Francisco presents
this table Of contents: The Life Natural, -
by f. r. Sill; Chata and Chinita," Louise
1 Wright" A. G. Tassin; Evening" G.
Melville Upton Bears Oscar F. Mar
tin - Cracker jim" Zitella Cooke; Thus
Far" Ellen Burroughs; Zanzibar and
the Fast Coast of Africa J. Study Leigh;
Pygmalion and - - Old Doc Travers,'
H. W. Leavens; Indian War Papers
the Bannock Campaign" 0. o. Howard.
From Macmillan & Co.. New York and
London, we have the English illustrated
Magazine for July. The contents are
=" Mazro's Crucifix,h by F. Marion Craw-
ford SERIAL Walks in the Wheat Fields"
Part I, by Richard Jefferies The Private
| Journal of French Mariner" by VIM
Frederick Dickes Love the Eternal" by
Morley Roberts; " Old Hook and Crook, +"
by Basil Field; A Secret Inheritance"
by B. L. Farjeon (serial). The illustrations
are few but good.
From the Century Company, SO East
Seventeenth street New York, we have
The Century Magazine" handsomely
bound in cloth and heavily embossed, for
the months from November, 1886, to April
1887, both inclusive. The publishers of
this splendid magazine certify that the
average edition of each of the six num-
bers was Is, 900 in excess Of the edition for
the same period in the preceding year. The
| bound volume sells at s..
The q Sanitarian " for June is at hand. 1t
has among its contents these articles !:
The Sanitation of AImshouses," by
Stephen Smith, NJ. D., Commissioner ia
Lunacy. New York The Relation Be
tween Drinking Water and Typhoid Fever,
by DR.. Bowling Benjamin, Camden, n. J. :;
Tests of Trap Efficiency" "Chimneys
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